Mazmur 32:7

32:7 You are my hiding place;

you protect me from distress.

You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance. ¹  (Selah)

Yesaya 28:15

28:15 For you say,

“We have made a treaty with death,

with Sheol ²  we have made an agreement. ³ 

When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by ⁴ 

it will not reach us.

For we have made a lie our refuge,

we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.” ⁵ 

Yesaya 28:17

28:17 I will make justice the measuring line,

fairness the plumb line;

hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, ⁶ 

the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

Yeremia 49:10

49:10 But I will strip everything away from Esau’s descendants.

I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide.

Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed.

Not one of them will be left!

[32:7]  ¹ tn Heb “[with] shouts of joy of deliverance you surround me.”

[28:15]  ² sn Sheol is the underworld, land of the dead, according to the OT world view.

[28:15]  ³ tn Elsewhere the noun חֹזֶה (khozeh) refers to a prophet who sees visions. In v. 18 the related term חָזוּת (khazut, “vision”) is used. The parallelism in both verses (note “treaty”) seems to demand a meaning “agreement” for both nouns. Perhaps חֹזֶה and חזוּת are used in a metonymic sense in vv. 15 and 18. Another option is to propose a homonymic root. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:514, and HALOT 301 s.v. II חֹזֶה.

[28:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “the overwhelming scourge, when it passes by” (NRSV similar).

[28:15]  ⁵ sn “Lie” and “deceitful word” would not be the terms used by the people. They would likely use the words “promise” and “reliable word,” but the prophet substitutes “lie” and “deceitful word” to emphasize that this treaty with death will really prove to be disappointing.

[28:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “[the] refuge, [the] lie.” See v. 15.